Welcome to the official blog of the community/outreach team for the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project!

This team oversees official events, mentorship programs, diversity initiatives, contributor outreach, and other ways of growing our community.

If you love WordPress and want to help us do these things, join in!

Getting Involved

We use this blog for policy debates, project announcements, and status reports. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment on posts and join the discussion.

You can learn about our current activities on the Team Projects page. These projects are suitable for everyone from newcomers to WordPress community elders.

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The Get Involved table at WCEU 2019

Do you love contributing to WordPress? Do you love telling other people about how much you love contributing to WordPress? Would you like those people to start contributing to WordPress themselves? Then do I have the opportunity for you!

If you’ve been to WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe or US before you’ll be familiar with the Get Involved table – it’s a central location (an actual physical table) where attendees can find out more information about contributing to WordPress. The table is staffed by community volunteers, and we aim to have it staffed by at least one person (but preferably more) from the start of registration to the end of the final session on each day of the WordCamp, not including Contributor DayContributor DayContributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/..

People working at the Get Involved table simply need to be able to explain how WordPress contributions work and help people find a good fit in the project for their particular set of skills.

What we’re looking for here is for community members to sign up for volunteer shifts at the Get Involved tables for WordCamp Europe 2019 in Berlin. We have split up the two conference days up into 1-hour shifts to make things easier and it would be great to have a selection of people from across the project (not just the Community team) involved here.

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This is a follow-up to a question I posed to Matt in Paris (2017) — my first WC.

I plan to attend WCEU in Berlin + look forward to meeting peeps there. Plus, would love to get feedback on what I wrote @ the link above (here or there or anywhere [pretty much] 😉 ).

I know my ideas shocked many in Paris (including Matt, to judge from his eyebrows). I realize my ideas are not exactly common. Nonetheless, I am very convinced of them — and very much look forward to anyone who can point out to me what might be wrong with them.

I have more ideas, too — and not all of them seem quite as “unrealistic” (or whatever) as the ones I mention in “Linking Together the WordPress Community”.

I decided to write this here because I enjoyed some of Josepha’s presentations + insights @ wordpress.TV — and I tried to find a way to introduce my ideas FOR CHANGE to her (+ get some feedback from her) … seeing as she’ll be talking (+I expect also gesticulating) about change in Berlin, I very much look forward to learning more about that!

I’m at WCEU right now + am very happy about the event related to “Linking together the WordPress community” that happened yesterday (for more current updates, see https://tagseo.wordpress.com 😉 )… and I am trying very hard to FIND JOSEPHA!!! 😀

Community Deputy Program

Community Deputies are a team of people all over the world who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and generally keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Here are some useful links about the program: